Bomb Explodes In Honduras After Pro-Zelaya
Meeting
Tegucigalpa - A fragmentation grenade
exploded on Sunday in a building in the
capital city, shortly after a pro-Zelaya
meeting there. No casualties were reported.
The device went off inside a bathroom in the
building of the Beverage Industry Workers
Union just after a meeting of the National
Front for Resistance Against the Coup, a
group opposes the June 28 ouster of
President Manuel Zelaya by the military.
Damage to the building was reported.
Juan Barahona, the group leader, said the
group would not be scared by any form of
intimidation and vowed to continue its fight
against the coup leaders.
"The only responsible ones are the police.
That bomb was to scare the people not to
fight against the coup leaders," Barahona
said.
Also on Sunday, some 3,000 people gathered
in front of the building and marched to El
Durazno cemetery in the north of the city,
where a Zelaya supporter was buried. He was
killed Saturday by soldiers on the border
with Nicaragua.
Zelaya is currently camping on the border
with Nicaragua, from where he made a brief
entry into Honduras on Friday.
Thousands of Zelaya's supporters gathered on
the border waiting to escort him to
Honduras' capital, while the post-coup
regime set up some 20 police checkpoints
there.
Since the coup, there have been three bomb
explosions in Honduras. Two more were found
and defused.
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